HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 283 331
Rank change year-on-year -96 +48 +36
Contract jobs citing HP 44 67 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 1.15% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 51
10th Percentile £154 £150 £135
25th Percentile £177 £213 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £604 £615 £487
90th Percentile £650 £818 £594
England median daily rate £314 £475 £405
% change year-on-year -33.89% +17.28% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £18.07 £22.70 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.91 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% +18.79% +7.51%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £18.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +6.47% +4.08% -15.67%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,922 5,813 7,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.31% 45.37% 41.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,203 3,765 5,030
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.59% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +19.01% -21.32%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.45 £24.65
% change year-on-year +32.33% +7.30% -34.27%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -19 8 £563 +7.19% 5
West London -16 4 £145 -
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.82%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) BASE24
1 2 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 3 (6.82%) IaaS
5 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.82%) PaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.27%) OCI
7 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) VPN
3 4 (9.09%) DHCP
3 4 (9.09%) SMTP
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.27%) IPsec
4 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.27%) SSL
4 1 (2.27%) VLAN
4 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.09%) Big Data
2 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.27%) Base SAS
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.27%) OLTP
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (2.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) JIRA
2 6 (13.64%) Selenium
3 3 (6.82%) Zephyr
4 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.55%) LoadRunner
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) TestDirector
4 2 (4.55%) TestRail
5 1 (2.27%) Appium
5 1 (2.27%) HP UFT
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (22.73%) Banking
2 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Private Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Hardware Technician
2 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Data Centre Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Field Service Technician
4 5 (11.36%) Tester
5 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Break Fix Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Server Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Test Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Middleware
2 3 (6.82%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) SOAP
3 1 (2.27%) XML
3 1 (2.27%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.09%) Clustering
3 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (9.09%) PKI
4 3 (6.82%) iPhone
5 2 (4.55%) EMV
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.55%) Tandem
6 1 (2.27%) Celerra
6 1 (2.27%) EMC Centera
6 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.27%) iPad
6 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.27%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.27%) Symmetrix
6 1 (2.27%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (11.36%) Linux
3 4 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) AIX
4 1 (2.27%) HPUX
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Solaris
4 1 (2.27%) SUSE
4 1 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Customer Service
2 12 (27.27%) DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) Break/Fix
3 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
3 9 (20.45%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (18.18%) Test Management
5 7 (15.91%) Agile
5 7 (15.91%) Migration
5 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Regression Testing
5 7 (15.91%) System Integration Testing
5 7 (15.91%) Test Strategy
6 6 (13.64%) AI
6 6 (13.64%) Defect Management
6 6 (13.64%) Integration Testing
6 6 (13.64%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (13.64%) Test Planning
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (4.55%) C
3 2 (4.55%) COBOL
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) CCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
5 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) SLA
2 6 (13.64%) QA
3 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.55%) ISO 8583
4 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.27%) GDPR
5 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) BitLocker
2 4 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (9.09%) Terminal Services
2 4 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.82%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (2.27%) Firmware
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 4 (9.09%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 4 (9.09%) vMotion
3 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.82%) Nagios
3 3 (6.82%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Avamar
4 1 (2.27%) Control-M
4 1 (2.27%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.27%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Dell
1 10 (22.73%) IBM
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Oracle
4 4 (9.09%) Citrix
4 4 (9.09%) Google
4 4 (9.09%) Symantec
4 4 (9.09%) VMware
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco
6 2 (4.55%) 3PAR
6 2 (4.55%) Avaloq
6 2 (4.55%) NetApp
6 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.27%) Canon
7 1 (2.27%) Isilon
7 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.27%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.27%) Veeam
7 1 (2.27%) Xerox